Re: AS/400 to IBM connection NOT thru line modems

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If your release of OS400 is fairly recent (at least V5R1?) and your AS/400 
is directly attached to the Internet (i.e., not behind a firewall), or 
there is another 400 that is outside the firewall and is addressable from 
the Internet, there is a Universal Connection setup in Ops Nav that can use 
the Internet. A VPN session gets started with some IBM server. Also, I 
don't know about Espana.

HTH
Vern

At 10:44 PM 2/29/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> One of my customers has his AS/400 connected to a telephone line thru a 
> modem (as has been normal from old days...) connected to one of  the 
> AS/400 comm lines.
> Once in a while, very seldom, e.g. if a hardware error is detected, the 
> AS/400 will dial to IBM to report the event...
>
> My customer asked me: Since we have all our network capable to connecting 
> to outside world, Internet, ... could we modify some of AS/400 settings so 
> any IBM related tasks are carried thru Internet, so we can get rid of the 
> "dedicated" telephone line and the modem, which is never used otherwise?
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
> --
> Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti
> afvaiv@xxxxxxxxxx